I was stationed aboard the United States Navy guided-missile frigate USS Taylor FFG 50 from about 19 December 1984 to sometime in January 1986. I don't recall precisely when I departed the ship for my assignment to Basic Electricity and Electronics School in Orlando Florida, for my second assignment to that school, but I think I left the Taylor in January 1984 and I feel certain that is correct. I left the ship when it was back in the shipyards in Bath Maine.
So anyway, before I left, and sometime during my assignment to the FFG 50, I worked in the Ship's Control department and I was a non-rated Seaman and I was supervised by the Boatswain Mates of that department and there was a large group of other non-rated sailors such as myself who worked for the Boatswain Mates.
Among that group of my peers was a United States Navy sailor who, the story goes, was formerly a sailor of Her Majesty's Royal Navy from England. He had served in Her Majesty's Royal Navy, the story I heard goes, and then he signed up for the United States Navy and there he was working in the same department as I on the United States Navy guided-missile frigate USS Taylor FFG 50.
One day, I do not recall the precise day, we were walking up the gangplank, or brow, onto the ship, from the pier. That was probably a day in the summer of 1985. I do not recall the precise day and since I watched the scene referenced below I have thought again, as I have before, that day could have been the summer of 1985. I was promoted to Petty Officer sometime in the latter half of 1985 and I was still working out of the Ship's Control department even though I was a Fire Controlman 3rd Class Petty Officer, so I am certain that incident would have been before I was promoted, so that makes it sometime probably in the summer of 1985 or earlier but not much earlier. I did not even watch that 3 July 1985 film "Back to the Future" until some time in 1986, as best I can recall. As best I can recall, the first time I saw that film was in the barracks lounge of the Fire Controlman barracks when I was attending Fire Controlman Class A school in Great Lakes Illinois. I can visualize myself sitting there in that lounge as it was on the television. I wondered about the probability of that film being on broadcast television that soon, about a year later, and so that is possible, but then I started to wonder if that lounge in that United States Navy barracks had the HBO cable television service available. I don't recall. But I feel certain that is where I saw it. I think I was aware of it being in the theatres in 1985 but, I have thought this morning, I thought the advertisements I saw for it seemed stupid and that might be why I didn't go out of my way to see it in the theatre. Also, we might have been out to sea when it was in the theatre and we were gone for a while in the summer of 1985 and we made a lot, it seemed, of short deployments off the coast of the United States including what seemed to be a deployment down to Key West Florida for what seemed to be forever. We weren't gone long enough to earn the Sea Service Deployment Ribbon so we weren't gone that long. I have thought to myself this morning about how I might not have seen it in the theatres because it seemed stupid and that seems more relevant because I think of that in the context of how I thought after I did watch it the first time that it was not really that stupid after all and I did really enjoy watching it.
Anyway again, there was that day walking up the brow and that sailor who was supposedly a former Royal Navy sailor. I don't know if that was true but he did present a convincing personality of a British person. He was walking ahead of me that day on the brow and I started to kick him in the rear as he was walking ahead of the brow in front of me. I wasn't kicking him very hard and I wasn't trying to but any person watching me anywhere, on the ship or on the pier or any other place who could see me, including him because he turned around every time I kicked him, could clearly see that I was kicking him in the rear as we walked up the brow.
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Memorable quotes for
Back to the Future (1985)
Dr. Emmett Brown: Which one's your pop?
Marty McFly: [points him out] That's him.
[they see him getting kicked around by other school bullies]
George McFly: [has a 'kick me' sign on his back] Okay. Okay you guys. Ah-ha-ha-ha, very funny. You guys are being real mature.
Dr. Emmett Brown: Maybe you were adopted.
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Back To The Future 3
It's a very interesting story, future boy...
...but there's one thing that doesn't make sense.
If the me of the future is now in the past, how could you possibly know about it?
You sent me a letter.
"Dear Marty, if my calculations are correct...
"... you will receive this letter immediately after the DeLorean's struck by lightning.
"First, let me assure you I am alive and well.
"I've been living happily these past eight months in the year 1885.
"The lightning bolt that hit the DeLorean...
"... caused an overload which scrambled the time circuits...
"... activated the flux capacitor and sent me back to 1885.
"The overload shorted out the time circuits...
"... and destroyed the flying circuits. Unfortunately, the car will never fly again. "
It actually flew?
Yeah. We had a hover conversion done in the early 21st century.
Incredible!
"I set myself up as a blacksmith as a front...
"... while I attempted to repair the damage to the time circuits.
"Unfortunately, this proved impossible...
"... because suitable replacement parts will not be invented until 1947.
"However, I've gotten quite adept at shoeing horses and fixing wagons. "
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WAYNE
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
From an occupational surname meaning "wagon maker", derived from Old English wægn "wagon".
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Steven Spielberg
Born: Steven Allan Spielberg December 18, 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Back to the Future Part III (executive producer) 1990
Back to the Future Part II (executive producer) 1989
Back to the Future (executive producer) 1985
